Botany Bay 2007, Installed on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Armley, Leeds and part of the current exhibition Latitude|Tropic featuring work by Roger Palmer and Jeremy Wafer. This collabrative exhibtion lives and breathes in the high open space of the PSL gallery. The walls seeming much like home to both artists.
Roger Palmer's collection Latitude, a group of seven photo-triptychs, dominated the gallery with an effortless bekon of black and white tones. The subject matter varies, but a mystery or a forgotten message, a moment perhaps a direction surrounds all of his work.
Spring Water (2009) by Palmer, part of the Latitude|Tropic exhibtion, is a thought provoking piece and relevant to recent concerns within society. Although based around the geographical connections between Botany Bay in Australia and an area of Leeds/Liverpool Canal in the Armley district of Leeds, the piece seems to provokes the sense of and a need for change, something else.
The flow of water, even in its most simplistic static state, mimics a trance like motion of kinetic energy which an empty plastic bottle dances with. Small eddies offer the plastic vessel a different path, or to take afloat in its current surroundings; the movement of this mundane plastic bottle also provokes the idea of a short journey.
After a cold walk along the picturesque canal I was even lucky enough to be invited to help myself to homemade Carrot and Corriander soup. I enoyed a fair few sponfulls whilst watching a collection of short films around the theme of Borders and Crossings as part of Soup and Cinema, a regular night held at PSL.
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